Eastern Illinois University Top Questions

Not all of the credits from my transferring university applied at EIU, therefore, several of my courses had to be repeated. The process for getting credit would have been a very involved and I decided to take the courses over. Being the youngest of five children, it became rather expensive to repeat the classes. I am not a minority or eligible for financial assistance. I have had to use financial aid to take these classes over again. I feel that it was not very good use of my money.

It's in a very boring town with very little going on. It's a small farming town, which is okay, but oftentimes it would be nice to have better places to go.

The worst thing about Eastern is the lack of school spirit, literally noone goes to the sporting events i had more people at my highschool games than i do here.

The amount of diversity. Eastern is located in a small central Illinois town and it really has not allowed me to experience as much diversity. However, I have been given the chance to work with diverse students during my practicum. We were positioned in inner city Champaign, IL school. There I worked with all types of race, gender, and disabilities.

I consider the worst thing about my school to be it's job placing techniques. I need a job and I've been applying for a year and I still cannot get one.

Its in the middle of nothing, and is really small.